Rona Durnell's Library
West Creek Middle
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780590129275 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint Exupery | Harcourt Brace & Company | |
| 9780736227858 | The Magic Nesting Doll | National Geographic Learning National Geographic Learning | Katia gets a beautiful magical Russian doll that will help her when she is in trouble. But when she meets a handsome prince under a wicked spell, will magic be enough to save the prince? | National Geographic School Pub |
| The Man In The Iron Mask | ||||
| The Mystery Of The Ancient Pyramid | ||||
| The Mystery Of The Underground Railroad | ||||
| The Mystery On The Mighty Mississippi | ||||
| 9780316113694 | The Name of This Book Is Secret | Pseudonymous Bosch | Two eleven-year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais, who are searching for the secret of immortality. | Little Brown & Company |
| 9780061992278 | The One and only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | Soon to be a major motion picture! Winner of the Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller This unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendship. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated book is told from the point of view of Ivan himself. Having spent twenty-seven years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes. In the tradition of timeless stories like Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create an unforgettable story of friendship, art, and hope. The One and Only Ivan features first-person narrative; author's use of literary devices (personification, imagery); and story elements (plot, character development, perspective). Plus don't miss Katherine Applegate's Endling series! | HarperCollins |
| 9781328585530 | The Oregon Trail (Paperback Boxed Set Plus Poster Map) | Wiley, Jesse | HMH Books for Young Readers | |
| 9781328549990 | The Oregon Trail: The Road To Oregon City (The Oregon Trail, 4) | Jesse Wiley | The end of the Oregon Trail is near, young pioneer—the fourth and final leg of your journey starts here. But, do you have the grit to make it to Oregon City? The wild frontier is full of risks and unpredictable surprises! This is the final installment of four books that will take you all the way to Oregon Territory—if you make the right choices.In the fourth and final book of this exciting choose-your-own-trail series, it's 1850 and you've traveled for more than three months on foot for fifteen miles a day with your family, covered wagon, and oxen. There are holes in the bottoms of your shoes. You've faced grizzly bears, traded with merchants, and wild bandits. Oregon City is so close—you can taste it. But you still have a ways to go on the Trail. There are still weeks of travel ahead of you—if you can survive the dangerous frontier.Trust yourself. Which path will you choose? With twenty-two possible endings, every decision counts. Choose wisely and make it all the way to Oregon City! | Clarion Books |
| 9780140385724 | The Outsiders | S. E. Hinton | Over 50 years of an iconic classic! This international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie is a heroic story of friendship and belonging.No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on “greasers” like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect—until the night someone takes things too far.The Outsiders is a dramatic and enduring work of fiction that laid the groundwork for the YA genre. S. E. Hinton's classic story of a boy who finds himself on the outskirts of regular society remains as powerful today as it was the day it was first published."The Outsiders transformed young-adult fiction from a genre mostly about prom queens, football players and high school crushes to one that portrayed a darker, truer world." —The New York Times"Taut with tension, filled with drama." —The Chicago Tribune"[A] classic coming-of-age book." —Philadelphia Daily NewsA New York Herald Tribune Best Teenage BookA Chicago Tribune Book World Spring Book Festival Honor BookAn ALA Best Book for Young AdultsWinner of the Massachusetts Children's Book Award | Speak |
| 9780142413937 | The Princess And The Pea | Rachel Isadora | When a prince sets out to find a princess to marry, he soon discovers this is not a simple task. There is no shortage of so-called princesses, but how can he tell whether or not they are what they claim to be?Then one night a great storm rages, there comes a knock on the palace gate, and the prince's life is never the same . . . | Puffin Books |
| 9781328549969 | The Race To Chimney Rock (1) (The Oregon Trail) | Wiley, Jesse | HMH Books for Young Readers | |
| 9781602185579 | The Reef | Sopris West Educational Services Cambium Learning | Cambium Learning, Sopris West Educational Services | |
| 9781328549983 | The Search For Snake River (3) (The Oregon Trail) | Wiley, Jesse | HMH Books for Young Readers | |
| 9781453086766 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Bendon | |
| 9780143036401 | The Secret Life Of Bees | Kidd, Sue Monk | "The bees came the summer of 1964, the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit, and I mean whole new orbit. Looking back on it now, I want to say the bees were sent to me. I want to say they showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, setting events in motion I could never have guessed." So begins the story of Lily Melissa Owens, a plucky girl, rich in humor despite heart wrenching circumstances. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, her entire life has been shaped around one devastating, though blurred, memory- the afternoon her mother was killed. Four at the time, she remembers innocently picking up the gun. And, she has her father's eyewitness account of the gun firing. People remind her it was an accident, yet she's inhabited by a torturous guilt. Lily's only real companion is Rosaleen, a tender, but fierce-hearted black woman who cooks, cleans and acts as her "stand-in mother." South Carolina in 1964 is a place and time of seething racial divides. When violence explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is desperate, not only to save Rosaleen, but to flee a life she can no longer endure. Calling upon her colorful wits and uncommon daring, she breaks Rosaleen out of jail and the two of them take off, runaway-fugitives conjoined in an escape that quickly turns into Lily's quest for the truth about her mother's life. Following a trail left ten years earlier, Lily and Rosaleen end up in the home of three bee-keeping sisters. No ordinary women, the sisters revere a Black Madonna and tend a unique brand of female spirituality that reaches back to the time of slavery. As Lily's life becomes deeply entwined with theirs, she is irrevocably altered. In a mesmerizing world of bees and honey, amid the strength and power of wise women, Lily journeys through painful secrets and shattering betrayals, finding her way to the single thing her heart longs for most. Learn more about Sue Monk Kidd at SueMonkKidd.com.Richmond Times-Dispatch...an Oprah pick just waiting to happen. | Penguin Books |
| The SOS File | ||||
| 9780439598446 | The Story of Ruby Bridges | Robert Coles, George Ford | For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 0140314202 | The Summer of the Swans |